There's no cocktail menu at Drink. Instead, as I'm informed by the bearded fellow in the natty vest that if you want to order the hard stuff, "You'll have to talk to us." Trading a back bar for slabs of black slate adorned with giant metal juicers and mysterious little dropper bottles, this basement boite in Barbara Lynch's Fort Point complex looks not unlike a high-school chem lab, cozily lit by bare bulbs resembling Nixie tubes. And there's plenty of mad science happening here. I ask my mixologist for something herbal. The chlorophyll-molecule tattoo peeking out from under her crisply rolled-up white sleeves (these folks are just so fucking dapper) seems an auspicious sign. She returns with a goblet of something eerie green. She won't tell me what's in it until I knock it back — it's a burst of fresh mint, with little tendrils of something mysterious and pleasantly medicinal underneath. This turns out to be her take on a LAST WORD ($11), the classic cocktail featuring Chartreuse (a potent French liqueur containing 130 herbal extracts); this one's made with rum, lime juice, and mint. Last Word? One more, please.

Review: 28 Degrees This handsome lounge/restaurant has been living more on its drinks than its food, but that turns out to be wrong.

Smoke Me Out There comes a time in every drinking career when the nuances of a well-made cocktail — the subtle botanical notes, for instance — just don't cut it anymore. You need a more intense experience.

Anatomy of an Old Fashioned When we asked the Hawthorne's Jackson Cannon to make Old Fashioneds with us, he didn't even blink. "I was born for this," he replied simply.

Drinking stories Twenty-five thousand members of the Lutheran Youth Congress are leaving New Orleans. Replacing them are another kind of faithful, equally dedicated in their way to their calling: 15,000 eager bartenders.

Review: Cook & Brown Public House When a restaurant moves into a location that has seen several eatery incarnations, it must work doubly hard to establish its reputation, both around the state and in the neighborhood. Cook & Brown Public House seems to be accomplishing both with aplomb.

MICHAUD FOR GOVERNOR | November 03, 2014 However you’ve been following the race for Governor this election season, you’ve been hearing it from all sides, so we’ll make this one brief. We urge you to vote for Michael Michaud.

ADVANCED BEAUTY LESSONS | November 03, 2014 Described as a “body-positive visibility project,” Portland’s Jack Tar 207 is all about representation. Models are encouraged to bring their own clothing and personal belongings to the shoot, which owner-designer LK Weiss says brings out “a level of confidence that many people don’t feel in front of a camera.”

LITERALLY LGBT | October 31, 2014 A community-compiled list of important GBLTQ works through the years.

BACK TO REALITY | September 18, 2014 If you’re a student in southern Maine and are at all interested in arts and humanities, and have a budget of exactly $10 to spend on any one event, there’s a lot in your favor.